New from the Pew Research Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a look at the American daily newspaper of 2008, derived from a study of newspapers in 15 different cities from four distinct regions of the country and a survey of senior news executives from 259 newspapers.
“It has fewer pages than three years [...]
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American newsroom 2008
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
In case you missed it: Does LA need the LAT?
Last week, LAT Chief Russ Stanton visited KRCW’s “Which Way LA?” to discuss the question with Warren Olney and panelists Emma Schafer, Public affairs consultant who runs Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum, Marc Cooper, Visiting Professor of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Patrick Frey, Blogger, Patterico.com. From KCRW:
After the Chandler family sold [...]
Living with music and other stray notes
• Pico Iyer shares his playlist with The New York Times.
• Book Passage owner Bill Petrocelli blasts Amazon’s tax holiday in California.
• Former LAT Times Editor John Carroll offers his take on “The Future of Journalism” in a speech at the University of Kentucky.
• Author Patt Morrison reels in more top interviews to [...]
Good idea
RJ Smith at Los Angeles magazine interviews the six living ex-editors of the Los Angeles Times about the paper’s past, its unpredictable new owner, and its prospects for the future. The story isn’t online yet, but LAObserved posts some choice morsels.
We don’t need no stinkin’ journalists… in the journalism department
From the Daily Forty-Niner student newspaper at Cal State Long Beach:
College of Liberal Arts Dean Gerry Riposa walked out of a meeting Friday morning with journalism department faculty rather than talk to students and press who were present regarding a proposed feasibility study of putting the Daily Forty-Niner online only.
“I thought I was [...]
Pulitzer day in California
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times win today “for their richly portrayed reports on the world’s distressed oceans” (explanatory reporting); Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly for “his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater” (criticism).
American newsroom 2008
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
In case you missed it: Does LA need the LAT?
Last week, LAT Chief Russ Stanton visited KRCW’s “Which Way LA?” to discuss the question with Warren Olney and panelists Emma Schafer, Public affairs consultant who runs Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum, Marc Cooper, Visiting Professor of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Patrick Frey, Blogger, Patterico.com. From KCRW:
After the Chandler family sold [...]
Living with music and other stray notes
• Pico Iyer shares his playlist with The New York Times.
• Book Passage owner Bill Petrocelli blasts Amazon’s tax holiday in California.
• Former LAT Times Editor John Carroll offers his take on “The Future of Journalism” in a speech at the University of Kentucky.
• Author Patt Morrison reels in more top interviews to [...]
Good idea
RJ Smith at Los Angeles magazine interviews the six living ex-editors of the Los Angeles Times about the paper’s past, its unpredictable new owner, and its prospects for the future. The story isn’t online yet, but LAObserved posts some choice morsels.
We don’t need no stinkin’ journalists… in the journalism department
From the Daily Forty-Niner student newspaper at Cal State Long Beach:
College of Liberal Arts Dean Gerry Riposa walked out of a meeting Friday morning with journalism department faculty rather than talk to students and press who were present regarding a proposed feasibility study of putting the Daily Forty-Niner online only.
“I thought I was [...]
Pulitzer day in California
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of the Los Angeles Times win today “for their richly portrayed reports on the world’s distressed oceans” (explanatory reporting); Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly for “his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater” (criticism).
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